Beth Whitman wears many hats as the founder of Wanderlust and Lipstick and WanderTours. She leads small group adventures to off-the-beaten-path destinations, she's the author of the Wanderlust and Lipstick guides for women travelers and the publisher of the Wanderlust and Lipstick website.

She draws upon her nearly 25 years of travel experience to write about travel-related issues as well as to share her favorite gear, music, photos and stories. Read more...

After our group’s first couple of days in Paro and Thimphu, we drove east and visited Punakha and Trongsa. Heading farther into the mountains, I got the sense that we were being enveloped in a carpet of greenery. This part of Bhutan is like the Pacific Northwest on steroids. One of the country’s most beautiful […]

The Cao Dai Temple in Tay Ninh, Vietnam is an out-of-the-way tourist site. It’s near the Cambodian border and takes the better part of the day to get there and back from Saigon. It’s completely fascinating, however. The Cao Dai religion joins Christianity with other beliefs. Worshipers believe that God was created as a result […]

Cao Dai Temple in Vietnam The Cao Dai Temple in Tay Ninh, Vietnam, is one of the most impressive religious buildings I’ve seen. The religion itself draws upon Christianity, Taoism and Buddhism to form an interesting mix that states that God presides over all beings and that the Goddess, Mother Buddha (a male), also oversees […]